Mjolnir , Thor ’s witching power hammer forged by dwarven blacksmiths out of the enchanted metal uru , has a history of being picky about who can pick it up . If the hammer consider a person is worthy of its power , heft it ’s no big mountain . So how the hell the Hydra fascist formerly known as Captain America , waving it around ?
This twelvemonth ’s Free Comic Book Day variant of Marvel ’s Secret Empire picks up aright where issue # 0 of the series pull up stakes off . Steve , along with an entire fleet of helicarriers Hydra hijacked from S.H.I.E.L.D , is invade Washington D.C. with the intention of taking over the White House . As all of the dry land ’s heroes who are n’t either trapped in space or tied up in NYC manage with the recently break away Pleasant Hill criminals show up to D.C. to fend off Hydra , they ’re shocked to discover that it ’s Steve who ’s leading the approach .
As the realization that Captain America betrayed everyone begins to sink in , Tony Stark , Vision , and Jane Foster / Thor are among the first to charge into fight , and then things start to get weird . Almost immediately , everyone on the field not fighting for Hydra start to lose control of their world power . The Scarlet Witch seemingly has another mental partitioning , the Vision start address in a panicked binary as his system malfunction , and , strange of all , Thor drops her power hammer .
There ’s no account as to how any of this is materialise and then , while everyone else looks on in horror , Steve walks up to Mjolnir and just blame it up like it ’s no big deal . The issue terminate with a declaration that in that one picky moment , Steve — and Hydra by filename extension — are worthy of the pounding which is … a uncanny affair to say .
tot up to the fact that Secret Empire # 1 does n’t even address any of this conflict , it ’s puzzling to parse what Spencer ’s saying here .
The inscription etched into Mjolnir ’s side put out its personal rules about who may wield it middling directly : “ Whosoever holds this pounding , if they be desirable , shall possess the power of Thor . ”
There have been a number of people besides the Odinson who ’ve managed to lift Mjolnir in the past , Jason Aaron ’s streak of The Unworthy Thor has given us the clearest account of just what worthiness mean to the malleus .
In The Unworthy Thor # 5 , we con that Odinson became unworthy when Nick Fury Sr . echoed Gorr the God Butcher ’s theme that graven image had forsaken the mortals who worship them . This prompts Mjolnir to search out a new wielder well suited to protect humankind and throws Odinson into an existential crisis . This reading of Mjolnir ’s enchantment says something about the hammer ’s sense of morality . While Odinson desperately need to pick Mjolnir back up , the hammer refuses him ostensibly because it wants to meet its obligation of being a tool for justice .
And that ’s what makes the tale optics of Steve Rogers being able to hoist Mjolnir so unsettling . We ’ve see that the hammer does n’t respond just to the desire of masses who want it , but is sentient enough to be able-bodied to learn a person ’s purpose . Nick Spencer himself has stated that Hydra and Steve Rogers are the villains of Secret Empire who are literally endeavor to take over the populace .
If Steve ’s intention are as malign as everything about Secret Empire has suggested , then how can he also be worthy ?
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